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New York state sued Allstate on Monday, accusing the insurer’s National General unit of failing to report a data breach that exposed drivers’ license numbers, and not developing reasonable safeguards to protect policyholders’ private information. The lawsuit by New York Read More …
Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications (NTT Com) has confirmed that hackers accessed the data of almost 18,000 corporate customers during a February cyberattack, affecting an as-yet-unknown number of individuals. The Tokyo-based NTT Com, which provides phone and network tech to Read More …
The families of the Nottingham attack victims have said claims healthcare staff illegally accessed medical records belonging to their loved ones are “sickening” and “inexcusable”. Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death Read More …
A U.S.-based independent cybersecurity journalist has declined to comply with a U.K. court-ordered injunction that was sought following their reporting on a recent cyberattack at U.K. private healthcare giant HCRG. Law firm Pinsent Masons, which served the February 28 court Read More …
The High Court has ordered Bank of Ireland to pay a €350K settlement to a woman and her partner, who alleged her data was released to her estranged father, who then used it to find the couple abroad and stalk Read More …
Hundreds of thousands of Android users, as well as several thousand iPhone users, have had their sensitive data compromised by a spouseware app, called Spyzie. The apps were found leaking email addresses, text messages, call logs, photographs, and other sensitive Read More …
A former Disney employee’s world was turned upside down when he downloaded an artificial intelligence-powered photo program, unaware that it was laced with hacking software, during a massive data breach at the entertainment giant. In July, Matthew Van Andel, an Read More …
Employment screening company DISA Global Solutions has filed a data breach notification after a cyber incident on their network. DISA says a third party had access to its environment between February 9, 2024, and April 22, 2024. The attacker may Read More …
On December 24, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed into law an amendment to section 899-aa of the N.Y. General Business Law, also known as The Shield Act, modifying the law’s data breach notification requirements. The amendment, which took Read More …
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered the DM Clinical Research database containing 1,674,218 records, totaling 2TB, including names, medical information, phone numbers, email addresses, medications, and health conditions – along with other data. Although the name of the dataset indicates the Read More …
